Learning to Slide

While at camp a bit of a skate crew started to emerge! Sparked through the find off a sweet oldschool banana board and the purchase of some gnarly hard sliding wheels, we started to hunger our days off as they finally had a purpose! The first initial slide session was with Shaunpaul and our main man Mel from Canada, held in the small town of Crofton, BC. We found the steepest hill with the smoothest surface that we could and took to it. The first sensation of ‘sliding’ was the coolest feeling as we had been used to just bombing a hill as fast as you can and hope to not get the speed wobbles (too gnarly!). So to actually start sliding on your board was super sik times! The three of us were all ecstatic, learning and teaching each other the ways of the slide. As we got better and braver the slides got faster and bigger and we started to mix it up. 180s, backside, frontside, corners, carparks, one hand, two hands 20 feet, 30 feet, 50 feet! We made our own gloves to slide with, made with chopping board cut and glued onto gardening gloves. This was necessary to ensure a safe and smooth ride. Through-out the summer on our days off from camp, we would do little missions to the nearby towns and cities on Vancouver Island to find what they had to offer in terms of hills, carparks and ruckas! We were joined by a few others on our little skate escapades and would try document it as much of it as we could. Having the skate crew at camp made the summer just that much freakin cooler! These were easily some of the best times at camp! Thanks lads.